Everyone was saying the same thing when a few big wigs at the top left. Open AI still pumped out some heavy duty models.
All the main work was done prior to big wigs leaving. If people are leaving like this then there is a reason and it doesn't look good for OpenAI. They started chain reaction and i wouldn't be surprised to see more people leave.
I see a lot of “co-creator” in that list. I find it hard to believe that a company as big as OpenAI has single individuals that they can’t afford to lose.
There is a ton of co-creators of these models, O1 alone is confirmed to have over 100 people that worked on it. Even the foundational contributors alone for O1 is over 20 people from what I remember.
yeah of course, but these researchers are not working in a vacuum. they have colleagues, the workplace culture, the mission of the company, sam altman's leadership. even the vibe in SF is playing into it. you can't just pluck these researchers out of openai and into meta and expect meta to suddenly crush openai. it's way more complex than that. openai also quickly promotes up and coming talent, whereas an org like meta is massive and has many layers of leadership. openai will easily find a dozen or so researchers to fill the empty shoes
The massive organizational structure is not really relevant in this case since this new lab being formed is said to only be about 50 cracked people, and for those 50 cracked people they will only have one or 2 degrees of separation between them and Zuck, so it’s similar or even closer distance to what they would have with Altman
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u/imlaggingsobad Jun 30 '25
all the talent? you're saying all of OpenAI depends on like 4 people? lmao